I have a bad chunk in a dbspace that is bad and marked "down" by Informix. I don't really care about the data in that chunk anyway, so I just want to drop it. But when I try to drop the chunk using "onspaces" it says I can't because it is "down".
I don't want to do a restore of the whole database, and I would prefer not unload all the tables in the dbspace which this chunk resides in just to drop the entire dbspace, because that could take days. I believe Informix support can force the chunk to drop, but is there any way I can force the chunk to drop without going through Informix support?

I am using Hyperscript Tools for Informix on a Unix platform. To receive the current date and time, the NOW() function is used to get a value between 0 and 401,768, each value representing a single day from the date Dec. 30, 1899.
Unfortunately, this is returning a value of -657,186.48150463. Is this a known problem that has since been fixed or could it be a setup problem?

When in production (several users), my Web application starts getting empty cursors when querying the Informix server. I'm sure the 'right' results are not empty. Also, I've seen, using onmonitor, that accessing from the Web application I have two user threads tops. But I can't figure out how to correct this or what is limiting the access.